For whatever reason I’m not really feeling this this year, but please use this space to have a chat about it.
You can’t actually vote in this one if you’re in the UK. Lyrics on the red button. We can vote on Thursday’s one.
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3+2(+1).
The first verse demonstrates why most male pop singers are tenors. And I hate saying that because I’m not one.
Shiny dresses!
The tenor who has the second verse sounds better to my ears, even with my prejudices against tenors.
I should like this more than I do, which means it’s not very good.
BELARUS 6
Belarus: Sickly sweet stage school (un)spectacular. I need some umami, stat.
4/10.
Paddy gives a good entry warning for Belarus
The dresses nearly deserve a shiny warning, but it’s just the good side of shiney.
A box ticking multi-gender five piece + piano, I think. And as such nothing at all wrong with it but hard to get excited by it. Still, seems well enough performed to me.
…No. The butterfly gimick is still not enough to get excited by, pretty as it is. Though why don’t the guys get wings?
8/10
ICELAND
Ah, a good old Icelandic Eurodance thing. Iceland appear to be Sweden this year.
8/10
Iceland: Eurodance. I SHOULD love it, but it lacks that certain…je ne sai-NO ALEX, DON’T.
6/10.
Last song of the night, apparently.
Iceland
After a very DDR opening we get a disappointing first verse… Into a DDR chorus.
Eurovision Ballad/DDR ballad hybrid, then.
Now I’ve grokked what it’s doing, it works actually. Not well enough to get excited by, but works.
Was that bit with a different beat a bridge or am I imagining things? (I think that’s music term for what Who fans call ‘a middle eight’)
8/10
It’s generic Eurodance with a twiddly digital effect in the chorus I swear I’ve heard on a game show theme before. Alex?
On merit a 6, but +1.25 for spectacularly defying the sexist use of sylph-like women in this genre. Ergo:
ICELAND 7.25
It sounds like an electricy-version of the Millionaire theme thing that does something like that.
Or, if you will:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gquVahRg-RE&feature=related
Actually from DDR’s bigger and more hardcore brother, no less.
Paddy continues his double act with the trio of presenters over numbers.
Basically it’s Albania, Iceland and Slovakia and Belgium all the way.
Unanalysed (And unformatted) voting summary from the Bother’s Bar Jury then:
Gizensha Alex David Brig Average
Moldova 7 7 7.5 5 6.625
Russia 8 4 1 6 4.75
Estonia 9 8.5 6.5 4 7
Slovakia 8.5 5 5.5 7.5 6.625
Finland 7 3.5 8 4 5.625
Latvia 4 6 6.5 7 5.875
Serbia 2 4.5 5 6 4.375
Bosnia etc 7 7.5 4 5 5.875
Poland 7 5.5 7 6 6.375
Belgium 9 8.5 8.75 7.5 8.4375
Malta 7 5 7.5 5 6.125
Albania 8.25 7 7 9.5 7.9375
Greece 7 7 6.5 5.5 6.5
Portugal 7.25 5 6.5 5 5.9375
FYR Macedonia 6.5 7.5 5 7 6.5
Belarus 8 4 6 3 5.25
Iceland 8 6 7.25 8 7.3125
OK, counting ties as them both getting points,
Belgium 8.44 12pts
Albania 7.94 10pts
Iceland 7.5 8pts
Estonia 7 7pts
Moldova 6.63 tied 6pts
Slovakia 6.63 tied 6pts
Greece 6.5 tied 5pts
Macedonia 6.5 tied 5pts
Poland 6.38 4pts
Malta 6.13 3pts
Portugal 5.94 2pts
Latvia 5.88 tied 1pt
Bosnia-H 5.88 tied 1pt
If it doesn’t work like that, Malta gets 1, work upwards.
Thanks chaps! I’m not going to be around for the other semi- and Final, but I’ll make sure to set up a new post.
MANGA ARE IN IT!!
FIFA soundtrack fans will remember “Bin Kadin Cizeceksin” from FIFA 08. It was brilliant.
I’m missing Thursday too but I’ll be back for the final!
Albania sounds a lot better now than I realised. Could win it.
Results in order, with Euroscore after a colon:
Belgium 8.4375 : 12
Albania 7.9375 : 10
Iceland 7.3125 : 8
Estonia 7 : 7
Moldova 6.625 : 6
Slovakia 6.625 : 6
Greece 6.5 : 4
FYR Macedonia 6.5 : 4
Poland 6.375 : 2
Malta 6.125 : 1
Portugal 5.9375
Latvia 5.875
Bosnia etc 5.875
Finland 5.625
Belarus 5.25
Russia 4.75
Serbia 4.375
And yeah, watching SF2 JUST for Lithuania and Turkey.
OH MY GOD SARAH YOU JUST SPOILED IT
…Shiny boxer bucks fizz warning for Thursday, apparently. Will make a change.
Eurovision 2010 album ALREADY on Spotify! Though some songs are missing. Including, mercifully, ours. Also Belgium’s, sadly. I’m listening to Albania again.
FYI
My votes had an STDEV of 1.75, Alex’s had an STDEV of 1.58, David 1.79 and Brig of 1.70, all to two dp.
Our means were Me – 7.09, Alex 5.97, David 6.21 and Brig 5.90, again to two dp.
Just for fun, when the qualifying countries come in:
1 point if its in your (or our) top ten, 0.5 if its in your top ten due to being equal to things that should be in your top ten but having more than ten with that amount or more.
I’ve highlighted with bold and italic and stuff, so should be easy to keep track.
I was planning for this. Good old forward planning.
Dear Romania.
Motion capture has been used since the mid-90s in video games. It is Not. New.
(This isn’t a contest as such, this is more a ‘who’s most in tune with European musical taste?’ metric.)
…Late eighties with some Knightmare monsters, surely?
(I mean, I think some of the goblins were motion captured CGI replicated rather than straight blue screen stuff, maybe mid nineties when they did that.)
Spain promises half naked male trapeze artists…
Paddy’s talking about Norway’s finish now. First asking how birds work, now asking about finishes…
That’s the first time I’ve heard our entry.
…Thankfully.
Right, 2 second reviews of the qualifiers:
Spain: Weird.
Norway: Ballad.
UK: No. Though the OST recording isn’t that bad.
France: USA would love this.
Germany: Barring the weird accent I like this!
It’s a slightly older John Candy.
Just found out that Lena celebrated her 19th birthday just two days ago.
We’re revealing via magical envelopes this year apparently.
Finalist #1 – Bosnia etc
Moldova is through for number two.
Finalist three – Russia
(It seems ‘magic envelopes’ mean ‘cgi’)
Russia. WHAT.
Number Four – Greece
Number Five – Portugal
Number Six – Belarus
Number Seven – Serbia
Some who are out revealed, randomly
Finalist Eight: Belgium
Finalist Nine: Albania
Finalist Ten: Iceland
Well fancy that.
The three best countries tonight are the last three to go through.
But Serbia? WHAT THE F*CK??!!!?!!?
So then…
Giz is 7.5/10 in tune with europe
Alex is 6/10 in tune with europe
David is 5/10 in tune with europe
Brig is 6/10 in tune with europe
The Bar Metamind is 5/10 in tune with Europe
I should note that scoring everything identically would get you 5/10 in tune with Europe here.
Estonia is like Switzerland last year, a song that is great listening to, but not really in performance terms. It’s not Eurovision.
…Serbia was responsible for one of Brig’s points there, actually.
That’s the lot for the now, I think.
I’m surprisingly in tune with Brig here. Only about 0.05 off with standard deviation, and exactly the same number of hits.
i would copy and paste my whole text log from tonights eurovsion, but no-one would want to read that, so in summary, i think poland macedonia and slovakia were hard done by. russia were lucky sods.